/// <summary>
/// init the display Value from string
/// </summary>
/// <param name = "choiceDispStr">the all substring separated with comma.
/// The behavior:
/// a. when have "\" before char a-z need to ignore the \ put the a-z char
/// b. when "\," -> ","
/// c. when "\-" -> "-"
/// d. when "\\" -> "\"
/// e. when "\\\\" -> "\\"
/// the display can be all string. and we don't need to check validation according to the dataType(as we do in Link
/// </param>
public static String[] GetDisplayListFromString(String choiceDispStr, bool removeAccelerators, bool shouldMakePrintable, bool shouldTrimOptions)
{
var fromHelp = new[] { "\\\\", "\\-", "\\," };
var toHelp = new[] { "XX", "XX", "XX" };
var trimChar = new[] { ' ' };
choiceDispStr = choiceDispStr.TrimEnd(trimChar);
String helpStrDisp = StrUtil.searchAndReplace(choiceDispStr, fromHelp, toHelp);
String[] sTok = StrUtil.tokenize(helpStrDisp, ",");
int size = (helpStrDisp != ""
? sTok.Length
: 0);
StringBuilder tokenBuffer;
String helpTokenDisp, token;
int currPosDisp = 0, nextPosDisp = 0, tokenPosDisp, i;
var choiceDisp = new String[size];
for (i = 0, currPosDisp = 0, nextPosDisp = 0; i < size; i++)
{
nextPosDisp = currPosDisp;
nextPosDisp = helpStrDisp.IndexOf(',', nextPosDisp);
if (nextPosDisp == currPosDisp)
{
token = helpTokenDisp = "";
}
else if (nextPosDisp == -1)
{
token = choiceDispStr.Substring(currPosDisp);
helpTokenDisp = helpStrDisp.Substring(currPosDisp);
}
else
{
token = choiceDispStr.Substring(currPosDisp, (nextPosDisp) - (currPosDisp));
helpTokenDisp = helpStrDisp.Substring(currPosDisp, (nextPosDisp) - (currPosDisp));
}
currPosDisp = nextPosDisp + 1;
if (token != null)
{
token = StrUtil.ltrim(token);
if (removeAccelerators)
{
token = RemoveAcclCharFromOptions(new StringBuilder(token));
}
//the same we need to do for helpTokenDisp
helpTokenDisp = StrUtil.ltrim(helpTokenDisp);
if (removeAccelerators)
{
helpTokenDisp = RemoveAcclCharFromOptions(new StringBuilder(helpTokenDisp));
}
}
if (helpTokenDisp.IndexOf('\\') >= 0)
{
tokenBuffer = new StringBuilder();
for (tokenPosDisp = 0; tokenPosDisp < helpTokenDisp.Length; tokenPosDisp++)
{
if (helpTokenDisp[tokenPosDisp] != '\\')
{
tokenBuffer.Append(token[tokenPosDisp]);
}
else if (tokenPosDisp == helpTokenDisp.Length - 1)
{
tokenBuffer.Append(' ');
}
}
token = tokenBuffer.ToString();
}
if (shouldMakePrintable)
{
token = StrUtil.makePrintableTokens(token, StrUtil.SEQ_2_STR);
if (shouldTrimOptions)
{
string temp = token.TrimEnd(trimChar);
if (temp.Length == 0)
{
choiceDisp[i] = " ";
}
else
{
choiceDisp[i] = token.TrimEnd(trimChar);
}
}
else
{
choiceDisp[i] = token;
}
}
else
{
choiceDisp[i] = token;
}
}
return(choiceDisp);
}
